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The Official Website of Colonel Allen WestTue, 31 Mar 2015 16:10:46 +0000en-UShourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1Bashar Assad has shocking battlefield damage assessment of ISIShttp://allenbwest.com/2015/03/bashar-assad-has-shocking-battlefield-assessment-of-isis/
http://allenbwest.com/2015/03/bashar-assad-has-shocking-battlefield-assessment-of-isis/#commentsTue, 31 Mar 2015 16:09:07 +0000http://allenbwest.com/?p=7199In February, President Obama stood in the White House flanked by Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of State John Kerry to address the American people about his request for an authorization for use of military force against ISIS.

Funny thing, I thought that was what we’d been doing since August last year, when President Obama gave another short address about his strategy to combat the “jayvee team” that had somehow become varsity — and causing the blues for Obama.

In both cases, President Obama spent more time preaching to we the people about what he was NOT going to do instead of clearly, from a strategic level, presenting a vision to end the barbaric scourge called the Islamic State — then again, President Obama said ISIS wasn’t “Islamic” — guess they’re Presbyterians?

During his speech in February, President Obama talked about ISIS’ morale and motivation being low — while his own administration’s counter-terrorism expert was testifying on Capitol Hill that ISIS recruiting was skyrocketing. I guess he didn’t get his talking points — or perhaps he was in the “No Spin Zone.”

Regardless, just as with the Iranian nuclear “deal,” we the people are in search of the truth regarding ISIS. Has the objective of degrading, decimating and destroying been met? I certainly hope we’re not using the same evaluative criteria as with the al-Qaida assessment from 2012.

Well, here’s a very unlikely source that has come out to provide us what we call in the military a BDA — battlefield damage assessment.

As reported by Politico, “Syrian President Bashar Assad says airstrikes on the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant targets are not getting rid of the threat posed by the terrorist group.

“Sometimes you could have local benefit, but in general, if you want to talk in terms of ISIS, actually ISIS has expanded since the beginning of the strikes,” Assad said, using another acronym for ISIL (I wrote here as to why the Obama administration uses ISIL), during an interview with Charlie Rose aired on “60 Minutes” on Sunday night.

“Not like some — American — wants to sugar coat the situation as the — to say that it’s getting better. As — ISIS is being defeated and so on. Actually, no, you have more recruits. Some estimates that they have 1,000 recruits every month in Syria. And Iraq — they are expanding in Libya and many other al-Qaida affiliate organizations have announced their allegiance to ISIS. So that’s the situation.”

One word: oops!

And Syrian President Bashar Assad had best beware of speaking out and embarrassing President Obama – or else Obama will deploy campaign operatives to work against him in his next election.

So here we go again with the false narrative emanating from our White House, our president. I can only imagine how many Pinocchios he’d receive if we actually did an enemy order of battle assessment on where ISIS was last year when President Obama sought accolades for having pulled out every single U.S. military troop from Iraq — only to redeploy they back before the year was ended.

I wish I had the ability to calculate this, but sadly I do not — maybe one of you astute readers could, however. Let’s consider how many American air sorties — single aircraft — that have flown since last year August against ISIS. Now, if there is a former Air Force/Navy aircraft logistics type out there, you could help us here. What is the approximate cost per each flight in fuel, flight hours and maintenance, and of course munitions dropped?

I can simply imagine, and consider also the cost of having to use aircraft carriers, because we didn’t have a land-based air operation. Consider this cost and the statement by Bashar Assad. It’s not just funny; it is doggone appalling.

Perhaps there’s a reason why we don’t hear about an estimated body count — then again, that would be difficult since you don’t have GTACs (Ground Tactical Air Control) operating. I know, we see the one or two trucks being blown up – that’s not exactly cost effective — tens of thousands of dollars for what? Three or four ISIS fighters — kinda the same calculus of one deserter for five senior Taliban leaders — shall I remind you that those five cheeky fellas are free to leave Qatar in two months?

And don’t worry, the leader of Hamas will still be residing in Doha, Qatar, where we have Al Uideed Airbase — yes, the irony.

Sure, I know the liberal progressive response is that Obama is brilliant. He is keeping us from getting engaged in the Middle East and forcing the Arab nations to take action. That is awesome, but they’ve been forced to do so because we abandoned the region — all to the dismay and concern of our best ally, Israel and a dedicated fighter against Islamic terrorism, Egypt. But to the delight of the number one state sponsor of Islamic terrorism, Iran, and the growing global Islamic jihadist movement — led by ISIS.

“Assad said that ISIL and Saudi Arabia share the same ideology and the same background, calling the Saudi kingdom a “marriage between the Wahhabi and the political system for 200 years now,” referring to the fundamentalist form of Islam embraced by Saudi Arabia.”

I contend we should always keep the Saudis at arms length because they have placated Wahhabism and allowed it to thrive with their funding. They now realize their ugly little Sunni Frankenstein’s monster, ISIS, is out of control and I’m quite sure they would leverage support to ISIS in order to thwart the advances of their common enemy, Iran.

If there are any stable countries that would join with America in combating this, it is Egypt, UAE, and Jordan. I’m just feeling that warm towards the Saudis and the Kuwaitis.

And here we are sitting at the table with Iran, succumbing to their acquisition of nuclear capability. So what is the strategy? It’s surely not to give them jobs and opportunities.

First, bring about the collapse of the reign of the ayatollahs in Iran and their support to Islamic terrorism. And concurrently strike the Islamic jihadists forces that stretch from Boko Haram to Abu Sayyaff in the Philippines. This is about developing a strike-oriented lethal and maneuverable force that can deny the enemy an ability to establish sanctuary and reposition. This is not about an exercise in nation-building, but simply finding, degrading, decimating and eventually destroying the enemy.

When kids realize joining up with ISIS or another Islamic terrorist organization isn’t fun and they could die — then they won’t join. And maybe we can have someone send them a memo that there REALLY aren’t any 72 virgins.

]]>http://allenbwest.com/2015/03/bashar-assad-has-shocking-battlefield-assessment-of-isis/feed/3Obama set to betray Israel again; when will American Jews wake up?http://allenbwest.com/2015/03/obama-set-to-betray-israel-again-when-will-american-jews-wake-up/
http://allenbwest.com/2015/03/obama-set-to-betray-israel-again-when-will-american-jews-wake-up/#commentsTue, 31 Mar 2015 14:56:02 +0000http://allenbwest.com/?p=7196Ok, here’s my prediction: the Obama administration will go to the United Nations Security Council and drop its veto against the establishment of the “two-state solution.”

Mind you that was originally supposed to be Israel and Jordan, but it wasn’t good enough for Yasser Arafat. And the whole Palestinian thing? Well, go back and do a little reading about the second Jewish Bar Kokhba revolt, and what Roman Emperor Hadrian decreed afterwards — changing the region’s name from Judea to Palaestina. The root word of Palaestina came from Philistia and their ancestors were Greek.

Sadly, when we in the West are historically ignorant, the manipulative can kidnap a designation and use it for their own nefarious purposes. You see, the real Palestinians are the Jewish people. The word was introduced to punish their failed revolt against the Romans, which began the Jewish diaspora.

I just wonder who will give the president of the United States that history lesson? AIPAC? ZOA? It certainly won’t come from J Street or Debbie Wasserman-Schultz or Ted Deutch. I would be more than happy to do so before the United Nations — maybe one day I’ll get that chance.

However, the greater honor would be to state this before the Knesset and firmly pledge my support. Today, I will be speaking at a luncheon in Irving, Texas before over 200 pastors sponsored by Pastor John Hagee’s organization Christians United for Israel (CUFI). And why is this the time to make this stand?

Simply, as it states in the Bible, Genesis 12:2-3 (NIV), “And I will make you a great nation, And I will bless you, And make your name great; And so you shall be a blessing; And I will bless those who bless you, And the one who curses you I will curse. And in you all the families of the earth will be blessed.”

That is pretty self-explanatory if you ask me. And that message couldn’t’ come at a more dire time.

As reported by The UK Times, “Iran is close to putting its forces on Israel’s northeast border for the first time, as its allies crush rebel groups in the Golan Heights area of Syria. The prospect of Iranian troops being posted on a frontier that has been calm for decades is causing alarm for Israel, and comes as international negotiations over Iran’s nuclear ambitions near a climax within the next 48 hours.”

“Iran will be so close to the Israelis that it will no longer need long-range missiles to hit them”, said Abu Ali, a fighter with Lebanon’s Iranian-backed Hezbollah organization who has served multiple combat tours in Syria.”

Now, I would tend to believe this is why President Obama’s efforts to undermine Prime Minister Netayahu’s election bid failed. Unlike the American people who are too busy with iPads, iPhones, and reality TV — the Israeli people know that high rent prices mean nothing if you are dead. The Israeli people know how dangerous their neighborhood is, and realize they need a strong leader who will honor the words, “never again.”

Let’s not fool ourselves, it was the Obama administration who threatened to cut off Hellfire missile support — used by Israeli attack helicopters — during the last conflagration with Hamas.

Can you imagine living in a country where you have an enemy to the south that has as its charter your destruction? And now, to your north and northeast you have another proxy Army force, Hezbollah, closing in on your border? And how did the Obama administration just two weeks ago deal with Iran and Hezbollah? Why, they were removed from the terrorist list.

Now, I can easily explain why American blacks are enthralled by the leftist liberal progressives of the Democrat party — it is the addictive crack cocaine of government dependency and the opium of the welfare nanny-state that has destroyed the black family and our inner cities.

I do pray, as Steven A. Smith stated recently at Vanderbilt University, that blacks will vote Republican and not just be tools of the liberal left.

But I must ask, what will it take for the American Jewish community to remove their collective heads from their “fourth point of contact” and recognize that this complicit anti-Semitic leftist progressive socialist Democrat party led by one President Barack Obama has abandoned Israel?

Perhaps that is fine by y’all — but not for me. As a Christian, one of the greatest experiences in my life was to set foot in the Holy Land, where my personal salvation was born, and died…but in this Holy Week, rose again.

I remember the day when my wife Angela took off her shoes and walked into the Sea of Galilee. My eyes welled up as I watched this daughter of Jamaican immigrants — legal mind you — weep openly as she bent down and touched the waters just as Jesus had done. I want my two daughters to have that same experience. However, that is not the experience that ISIS, Hamas, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad, Fatah, or Al Aqsa Martyrs brigade have for their children.

And sadly, it would seem that President Barack Obama doesn’t have the same hope for his two daughters, based on his actions. I will not allow ANYONE to take away the hope and dream I have for Aubrey and Austen to set foot in the Sea of Galilee and walk the streets of Jerusalem and visit Bethlehem — where sadly the Christian community is dwindling — so much for tolerance and coexistence.

The barbarians are indeed at the gate, but there are also traitors within our ranks. If Barack Obama goes to the U.N. Security Council and drops the veto support for the two-state solution — I believe we will see the latter enable the former.

If that is the case, the promise of almighty God to Abram, who became Abraham, the father of a great nation, will come to fruition for America. And I am not for allowing America to lose its blessings.

And just in case you were wondering about that promise for Abraham’s seed born of Hagar, Ishmael, turn to Genesis 16:11-12 (NIV), “The angel of the LORD said to her further, “Behold, you are with child, And you will bear a son; And you shall call his name Ishmael, Because the LORD has given heed to your affliction. “He will be a wild donkey of a man, His hand will be against everyone, And everyone’s hand will be against him; And he will live to the east of all his brothers.”

Hmm, seemingly prophetic.

]]>http://allenbwest.com/2015/03/obama-set-to-betray-israel-again-when-will-american-jews-wake-up/feed/105The truth about what’s in Clinton’s deleted emailshttp://allenbwest.com/2015/03/the-truth-about-whats-in-clintons-deleted-emails/
http://allenbwest.com/2015/03/the-truth-about-whats-in-clintons-deleted-emails/#commentsMon, 30 Mar 2015 18:56:35 +0000http://allenbwest.com/?p=7194One of the responsibilities of public service is to be open and transparent to the people whom you serve. It appears this is not a code by which some wish to live — instead believing they are beholden to a different standard. However, at a time when lives have been lost, it does indeed make a difference.

As reported by Politico, “Hillary Clinton wiped “clean” the private server housing emails from her tenure as secretary of state, the chairman of the House committee investigating the 2012 terrorist attacks in Benghazi said Friday. “While it is not clear precisely when Secretary Clinton decided to permanently delete all emails from her server, it appears she made the decision after October 28, 2014, when the Department of State for the first time asked the Secretary to return her public record to the Department,” Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.), chairman of the Select Committee on Benghazi, said in a statement.”

“Clinton was under a subpoena order from the panel for all documents related to the 2012 attacks on the American compound there. But David Kendall, an attorney for Clinton, said the 900 pages of emails previously provided to the panel cover its request. Kendall also informed the committee that Clinton’s emails from her time at the State Department have been permanently erased.”

And so it goes, as with the emails of another government servant, Lois Lerner of the IRS. When in question, it seems official government correspondence just sort of vanishes.

Just this past weekend, while speaking in Washington state, I was asked if the truth regarding Benghazi would ever surface. Sadly, I responded I didn’t believe it would.

There is still a contingent of people who believe the deaths of four Americans and the false narrative created to cover the Islamic terror attack by Ansar al-Sharia warrants no inquiry. As well, the game of thrones surrounding the political aspirations of some are far more important.

What does this say for someone who seeks to be “Commander-in-Chief” of our U.S. military? How can our men and women in uniform trust and believe that their backs will be covered if we have a sentiment, an arrogance that is clearly not in keeping with a high standard of integrity?

Americans were abandoned to die, yet to some they are nothing more than just emails to be destroyed. A nation cannot survive this type of blatant disregard — or treachery.

As a government official you don’t get to decide what correspondence will be released and shared for the representatives of the American people to view. As well, that correspondence is not “supposed” to be stored on private servers in a private residence — only to be deleted at the convenience of the holder. Clinton’s lawyer’s statement that “Secretary Clinton’s emails from her time at the State Department have been permanently erased” are not words the American people should tolerate — and that should be a bipartisan position.

So where does this leave the ongoing search for truth in the matter of four Americans being left to die in Libya?

“Gowdy said that Clinton’s response to the subpoena means he and Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) will now contemplate new legal actions against Clinton. “After seeking and receiving a two week extension from the Committee, Secretary Clinton failed to provide a single new document to the subpoena issued by the Committee and refused to provide her private server to the Inspector General for the State Department or any other independent arbiter for analysis,” Gowdy said.”

“In a letter provided to the committee, Kendall said Clinton would not be turning over the server to a third-party for review and that the emails no longer exist on the private server located in her New York home. “There is no basis to support the proposed third-party review of the server that hosted the hdr22@clintonemail.com account,” Kendall wrote. “To avoid prolonging a discussion that would be academic, I have confirmed with the secretary’s IT support that no emails…..for the time period January 21, 2009 through February 1, 2013 reside on the server or on any back-up systems associated with the server.”

And so the story goes in our new fundamentally transformed America, where the elitism of governance casts its long and ugly shadow. Where it seems there’s not am economic class system developing but instead a system of those who are perceived above reproach — and us serfs who are told to do as they say, not as they do. Move along, stop bothering us, we have others things to do.

That sentiment is demonstrated by Rep. Elijah Cummings, the top Democrat on the Benghazi panel, who said Clinton’s response “confirms” that the former secretary of state has provided all documents related to the Benghazi attacks to the committee. “This confirms what we all knew—that Secretary Clinton already produced her official records to the State Department, that she did not keep her personal emails, and that the Select Committee has already obtained her emails relating to the attacks in Benghazi,” said Cummings (D-Md.). “It is time for the Committee to stop this political charade and instead make these documents public and schedule Secretary Clinton’s public testimony now.”

So no America, at least for those who care, we will never know the truth behind the deaths of Ambassador Christopher Stevens, Sean Smith and two former Navy SEALS — Glenn Doherty and Ty Woods. After all, what difference at this point does it make?

Clearly it means little to those who seek power to rule and establish a different set of rules for themselves.

As part of their undercover College Investigation tour (which produced a similar eye-opening video from Cornell University), O’Keefe’s team went to Barry University in Florida – a Catholic University by the way — where administrators agreed to help an honors student set up a campus club to send money and supplies to ISIS (“because you know, they’re so poor and everything.”)

The UK Daily Mail reports, “hidden camera footage released Monday morning shows officials and faculty at Barry University advising a senior – identified only as ‘Laura’ – about the best way to secure funding for a club she called ‘Sympathetic Students in Support of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.”

‘I want to start fundraising efforts on campus, and what I want to do is raise funds to send overseas,’ she told Derek Bley, the school’s Coordinator for Leadership Development and Student Organizations.”

“Bley offered to help her create the organization and agreed with her request to ‘pass out Islamic State flags and educate people’ at an annual student ‘Festival of Nations’ fair.”

Laura wasn’t shy about describing ISIS. ‘They are terrorists,’ she told Bley, ‘but, like, we’re trying to help them. We’re trying to, like, educate them and give them funding so that they don’t have to be impoverished and get involved in acts of violence.’

‘You should create jobs and help promote education in the Islamic State,’ she added later, ‘because that’s what helps reduce terrorism.’

The Daily Mail says, “The only objection Laura encountered was related to the group’s proposed name.”

‘The only thing, as far as the name [goes],’ she heard from Frederique Frage, the university’s associate director of international and multicultural programs, is that ‘technically our country is at war with ISIS’.”

“Frage was quick to add: ‘I am not saying that – at all – ISIS represents Islam.’ But students might have ‘some reservation’ supporting a group engaged in a ‘humanitarian effort’ aimed at the terror group, she said. ‘It’s just unfortunate.’

“Another multicultural program administrator, Daisy Santiago, chimed in that Laura should rename her group ‘Students in Support of the Middle East’ – ‘as opposed to having the ‘ISIS’ [name].'”

Yes, it’s terribly unfortunate those ISIS folks keep beheading, immolating, raping, shooting and pillaging. It’s just unfortunate. Because, we could like, help them you know? And then maybe they’d like, stop hating us. And massacring Christians.

Unbelievable.

]]>http://allenbwest.com/2015/03/catholic-university-okays-isis-support-club-video/feed/42No murder charges for woman who cut baby out of wombhttp://allenbwest.com/2015/03/no-murder-charges-for-woman-who-cut-baby-out-of-womb/
http://allenbwest.com/2015/03/no-murder-charges-for-woman-who-cut-baby-out-of-womb/#commentsMon, 30 Mar 2015 15:25:10 +0000http://allenbwest.com/?p=7189There are times when I truly believe evil is rampant in our society and we fail to grasp that realization.

Yes, I do support life, and per this recent case in Colorado, there should be no equivocating on that issue.

As reported by the Daily Caller, “A Colorado woman who allegedly cut a baby out of a woman’s womb who was seven months pregnant will not face murder charges because prosecutors can’t prove the baby survived once she was removed. If prosecutors can’t prove the baby, Aurora, “lived as a child outside the body of the mother for some period of time,” they can’t press murder charges in Colorado, Boulder County District Attorney Stanley Garnett told reporters.

Pro-abortion Democrats in Colorado have repeatedly blocked measures to change the law in favor of unborn babies, because of concerns pro-life Republicans would use such laws to restrict abortions in the state. The child’s mother, Michelle Wilkins, 26, went to the alleged killer’s home the afternoon of March 18 to pick up baby clothes in response to a Craigslist ad. The seller, Dynel Lane, who Wilkins knew as “D,” stabbed Wilkins, cut her abdomen open and removed the baby. Wilkins managed to call 9-11 and is in stable, but critical condition. The baby did not survive. Lane’s husband told police he left work early that day to take his wife to a prenatal appointment. When he got home he headed downstairs and his wife came around the corner, covered in blood. She told him she had miscarried and that the baby was upstairs in the bathtub.”

Yes, a baby that had been brutally cut out of her mother’s womb with the intention of killing little baby Aurora.

This episode reminds me of the Dr. Kermit Gosnell case, which liberal progressive media did everything to keep under the radar due to its heinous and despicable circumstances — he is now in jail. But this also reminds me of a young Illinois state senator who championed legislation advocating that even if a baby survived an abortion the child still deserved to be killed. (Hint: he’s now in the Oval Office).

What manner of people are we becoming that we are clearly supporting infanticide? The actions of Ms. Lane can only be seen as barbaric and premeditated — and why not have a law favoring unborn children — after all the first unalienable right is life.

It’s similar to the Nidal Hasan shooting at Ft. Hood where the stated death count in the act of “workplace violence” was 13 — not taking into account that one of the soldiers killed was pregnant. Hasan’s treacherous jihadist murder rampage resulted in FOURTEEN American lives lost.

Ms. Lane’s intent was to kill a child, and luring Ms. Wilkins to her apartment and her statement to her husband seems conclusive. One can only imagine the trauma that Ms. Wilkins will have for the rest of her life, and the sadness for a life — Aurora’s — that was ended in a tragic way.

So are the politics of killing babies more important than justice — don’t all lives matter? It would seem that to the pro-abortionist crowd, that’s not the case — as with all the millions of black babies who have met a similar fate, perhaps in not so premeditated or devious a manner.

Ms. Lane is a murderer and she is no different that Kermit Gosnell. She took an innocent life from a woman who was just looking for some baby clothes. And if there are some whose hearts are so hardened and cold that they cannot charge this woman with murder — my God, is there any hope?

And to debunk the whole line about Aurora not surviving outside the womb, “Lane’s husband stated ran upstairs and found the baby in the tub. He rubbed the baby slightly, then rolled it over to hear and see it take a gasping breath. He then wrapped the baby in a towel, rushed the baby and his wife to the hospital, then left to pick up his teenage step-daughters from school, who also live at Lane’s home.”

“Ms. Lane told hospital staff she had miscarried the baby, but then admitted to a police detective she had cut the baby out of Ms. Wilkins’ abdomen. The medical staff noted the baby would have been “viable,” and a doctor told police the incision was “well-performed,” by someone who would have to have researched Cesarean section births.”

“Ms. Lane was eventually arrested on charges of attempted first-degree murder, first-degree assault and child abuse knowingly and recklessly resulting in death. Prosecutors formally charged Lane Friday with eight felonies, but did not charge her with murder. “The issue of whether or not murder charges are appropriate involving a case involving the death of a fetus or a late-term pregnancy is always a difficult issue,” Garnett said in an earlier statement. ”Under Colorado law, essentially, there’s no way murder charges can be brought if it’s not established that the fetus lived as a child outside the body of the mother for some period of time.” This past Friday, Garnett acknowledged many want the state to charge Lane with murder, but said it’s legally impossible.”

To not charge Ms. Dynel Lane with murder is immoral and an emergency session of the Colorado legislature could take care of this perceived obstacle — and what say you, Governor?

Lane is facing more than 100 years in prison and it appears that this is not the first time she’s been involved in the death of a baby. “In 2002, Lane was apparently in a different marriage and lost a 19-month-old son to accidental drowning in a decorative pond at her home, a county coroner told CNN.

Life and motherhood are precious, God’s everyday miraculous gift to us, a civilized society, but does the politics of death for our unborn threaten that blessing?

]]>http://allenbwest.com/2015/03/no-murder-charges-for-woman-who-cut-baby-out-of-womb/feed/25Iranian journalist says U.S. negotiating on behalf of Iran in nuke talkshttp://allenbwest.com/2015/03/iranian-journalist-says-u-s-negotiating-on-behalf-of-iran-in-nuke-talks/
http://allenbwest.com/2015/03/iranian-journalist-says-u-s-negotiating-on-behalf-of-iran-in-nuke-talks/#commentsMon, 30 Mar 2015 14:27:08 +0000http://allenbwest.com/?p=7185Are we truly getting a clear view of what is transpiring with these nuclear negotiation talks with Iran? If it hadn’t been for Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu’s address before a joint session of Congress perhaps not. If Senator Tom Cotton and 46 other GOP Senators had not written an open letter to the Iranian leadership, perhaps Secretary of State John Kerry would not have been forced to admit before a Senate Foreign Relations committee hearing that this “agreement” is non-binding. And why is it that President Obama is so emphatic about vetoing any congressionally-passed legislation that could reinstate sanctions or require that Congress be a part of approving this “deal?”

Because we’re clearly NOT getting the full picture, and the recent defection of an Iranian journalist confirms that disturbing fact.

As reported by the UK Telegraph, “A close media aide to Hassan Rouhani, the Iranian president, has sought political asylum in Switzerland after travelling to Lausanne to cover the nuclear talks between Tehran and the West. Amir Hossein Mottaghi said he no longer saw any “sense” in his profession as a journalist as he could only write what he was told. My conscience would not allow me to carry out my profession in this manner any more.”

“Motaghi is said to have been a friend of Jason Rezaian, the Iranian-American reporter for the Washington Post who has been detained in Tehran, and to have campaigned privately for his release.” Just as a reminder, Iran is in fact holding four Americans hostage and that hasn’t been an issue for the Obama administration to resolve before even embarking upon this folly.

Probably many of you are saying, so what? But here’s the kicker.

In his television interview, Mottaghi also said “The U.S. negotiating team are mainly there to speak on Iran’s behalf with other members of the 5+1 countries and convince them of a deal.”

Wait, what?

We reported here that two weeks ago U.S. Director of National Intelligence James Clapper revealed a document that had dropped Iran, and their proxy Islamist army Hezbollah, from the terrorist list.

And now we hear from an Iranian defector who was at the proceedings in Lausanne that our U.S. negotiating team led by our Secretary of State, John Kerry, is advocating on behalf of the Iranians?

If this is the case, then we have a greater issue than we could ever imagine — our national security is being sold down the river for a nuclear armed Iran — and for what reason? Or should I say “t/reason?”

Is this a part of the Obama administration foreign policy legacy, so they can state that they did something which previously hadn’t been achieved? Could this be Obama’s crowning jewel for which he was given the Nobel Peace Prize? Of course the irony is that Iran has never advanced the concept of peace.

The goal when it comes to the Iranian nuclear program must be its cessation — not a slow down. With that must come full disclosure of its sites for inspection — something which has not been agreed to. At no point in time should international sanctions against Iran be lifted unless there is full compliance with international demand. Iranian leadership has not changed its behavior in any way shape of form – as a matter of fact, Iran has grown even more belligerent and expansive — especially with the vacuum created by a clearly absent U.S foreign policy in the Middle East.

What are the motivations behind the Obama administration secrecy in this matter? Perhaps those emails will also be deleted and we shall never know. One thing that we do know, if this “deal” goes through and President Obama takes it to the United Nations for approval, it will mean a huge blow to the sovereignty of America and our Constitutional system of coequal branches of government. This would be a hugely dangerous rogue move that will have lasting ramifications not just for America, but for the world as a whole.

Hitler referred to the signed document between himself and Neville Chamberlain as a just piece of paper — seems that history does indeed repeat itself.

]]>http://allenbwest.com/2015/03/iranian-journalist-says-u-s-negotiating-on-behalf-of-iran-in-nuke-talks/feed/13Where’s the protest for 7 black people shot over the weekend at Florida Spring Break party?http://allenbwest.com/2015/03/wheres-the-protest-for-7-black-people-shot-over-the-weekend-at-florida-spring-breach-party/
http://allenbwest.com/2015/03/wheres-the-protest-for-7-black-people-shot-over-the-weekend-at-florida-spring-breach-party/#commentsMon, 30 Mar 2015 13:22:49 +0000http://allenbwest.com/?p=7183There is a hideous and shameful double standard from the likes of Al Sharpton and Eric Holder.

Black lives only seem to matter if they are victims of white people.

In the wee hours of this past Saturday, a gunman opened fire at a Florida spring break party, inuring seven people, three critically.

The gunman was black.

The victims were black.

Where’s the outrage? Where are the vigils? Where are the t-shirts and hashtags?

Doesn’t this matter to anyone? Heck, there’s not even a peep from the anti-gun crowd.

And of course you’ll notice in the news reports that the race of the shooter and the victims is not mentioned. You can be absolutely certain if the shooter had been white, this would be international news. But if it’s just black people shooting black people, I guess it really doesn’t matter to a lot of people.

The shooter, 22-year-old David Jamichael Daniels, of Mobile, Alabama, was been charged with seven counts of attempted murder and jailed awaiting a first court appearance. He is believed to have used a .40-caliber handgun which was found in the yard of a nearby home.

According to the Associated Press, “Sheriff Frank McKeithen said a busy party full of dancing young people dissolved into “a chaotic scene.” Daniels was free on bond on a drug possession charge in Alabama, the sheriff said, and was accompanied by two others, one who had been recovering from a gunshot wound suffered in Mobile last week.”

At least three of Daniels’ victims were critically injured: Kearria Freed, 20, who was shot in the head; Devanta Moore, 21, who was shot in the chest; and Henton Franklin, 22, who was shot in the side, according to AP.

“Three others were listed in stable condition: Jacole Young, 22, who police said was shot in the back three times; Kelli Curry, 21, who was shot in the leg; and Tykeria Ethridge, 22, who was shot in the neck and shoulder.”

“A seventh victim — Anesia Powell, 20 — was shot in the left arm, chest, and knee, and was undergoing surgery Saturday.”

Doesn’t the black community see the hypocrisy in all of this? ALL black lives should matter.

Particularly those being driven to despair through an endless cycle of broken homes, lack of faith and values, poor education, poverty, crime and the brainwashing of victimhood.

Instead of stoking the flames of racial hatred, how about stoking the passion of self-reliance, family and honor?

I know, that just doesn’t make for good television.

[Note: this article was written by Editor-in-Chief Michele Hickford]

]]>http://allenbwest.com/2015/03/wheres-the-protest-for-7-black-people-shot-over-the-weekend-at-florida-spring-breach-party/feed/115Revenge? U.S. releases secret details of Israel’s nuclear programhttp://allenbwest.com/2015/03/revenge-u-s-releases-secret-details-of-israels-nuclear-program/
http://allenbwest.com/2015/03/revenge-u-s-releases-secret-details-of-israels-nuclear-program/#commentsSun, 29 Mar 2015 17:30:17 +0000http://allenbwest.com/?p=7182In the continuing litany of insults and affronts to Israel and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from the Obama administration, we must add this little nugget, which is getting little coverage in the press.

In case you’ve forgotten already, there was the time Obama complained to then French President Nicolas Sarkozy about having to work with Netanyahu every day (after Sarkozy said he couldn’t stand Bibi), then made him enter the White House through the back door, then potentially used State Department funds to undermine his election, then declined to openly congratulate him on his victory, then said he’d probably no longer stand with Israel in the United Nations, and now this.

Pretty much ignored by the mainstream media is the story as reported by Israel National News that “the Pentagon early last month quietly declassified a Department of Defense top-secret document detailing Israel’s nuclear program, a highly covert topic that Israel has never formally announced to avoid a regional nuclear arms race, and which the US until now has respected by remaining silent.”

“But by publishing the declassified document from 1987, the US reportedly breached the silent agreement to keep quiet on Israel’s nuclear powers for the first time ever, detailing the nuclear program in great depth.”

Well isn’t that…coincidental? The timing of the document’s release couldn’t have been “better” as it happened just as the tensions between Obama and Netanyahu were at their highest around the Israeli Prime Minister’s address to Congress.

Plus, while the Pentagon saw fit to publicize Israel’s nuclear program, it blocked out the sections on Italy, France, West Germany and other NATO countries and kept them classified.

Interestingly, Israel National News reports that the process to have the document published was started three years ago, but the timing of its release was carefully chosen.

However, isn’t it also disconcerting that Obama was thinking about this three years ago? This isn’t just some sudden squabble.

Perhaps there’s a small amount of good news in this. The report acknowledged that in some cases, Israeli military technology “is more advanced than in the U.S.”

And that’s a darn good thing, because with every passing day it becomes more and more obvious that not only will Obama not stand by Israel, he will more than likely stand with Iran.

]]>http://allenbwest.com/2015/03/revenge-u-s-releases-secret-details-of-israels-nuclear-program/feed/40When you stand on truth and principle, you must be prepared for thishttp://allenbwest.com/2015/03/when-you-stand-on-truth-and-principle-you-must-be-prepared-for-this/
http://allenbwest.com/2015/03/when-you-stand-on-truth-and-principle-you-must-be-prepared-for-this/#commentsSun, 29 Mar 2015 16:24:56 +0000http://allenbwest.com/?p=7179Good Sunday morning folks, just had a tremendous visit in the Pacific Northwest, in the state of Washington, speaking at three venues in Snohomish County (Everett), Lincoln County (Davenport), and Spokane.

It was great to be in Spokane the same day that my Tennessee Lady Vols defeated Gonzaga in overtime in the Women’s NCAA Basketball tournament championship — they are part of the Elite Eight. This weekend I shared the story of Lincoln’s “Liberty and Tyranny” quote to inspire the people to stand up and declare the true meaning of liberty — the right of the individual to do as they please and what they please with the product of their labor, not for others to take that right away. But as I sit here in the Portland airport awaiting my flight to Dallas-Ft Worth, God asked me to share some scripture verses with you all.

You see, there are times when you stand on truth and principle, it angers others and they believe you to be a threat. And for whatever reason you must be targeted and your character assaulted by those who hide in the shadows. Perhaps there are those of you out there who need an encouraging word to stand in the face of wrongdoers and their tactics of personal assassination and destruction — something of which I, and sadly my family, are familiar.

So hear are the words from Isaiah Chapter 54, verse 17 (NIV), “No weapon forged against you will prevail, and you will refute every tongue that accuses you. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and this is their vindication from me,” declares the LORD.” As well, it simply says in Romans Chapter 8, verse 31 (NIV), “What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?”

We the people, the American people, are more than conquerors and those who are the emissaries and authors of confusion, denigration, and defamation will not triumph. Those who stand for liberty rooted in the knowledge of that unalienable right emanating not from man but from our Creator, God, will prevail. There are moments of perceived darkness but truth and light wins victoriously.

God bless, Steadfast and Loyal

]]>http://allenbwest.com/2015/03/when-you-stand-on-truth-and-principle-you-must-be-prepared-for-this/feed/106Debt per household has increased 15-fold during Harry Reid tenurehttp://allenbwest.com/2015/03/debt-per-household-has-increased-15-fold-during-harry-reid-tenure/
http://allenbwest.com/2015/03/debt-per-household-has-increased-15-fold-during-harry-reid-tenure/#commentsSat, 28 Mar 2015 14:18:37 +0000http://allenbwest.com/?p=7176As you know by now, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid decided to call it quits and yesterday announced he’ll be resigning from Congress. Senator Reid has been serving since 1983 – the year I went on active duty in the Army at Ft. Sill Oklahoma.

I think there should be an exit assessment of any Member of Congress in order to evaluate their effectiveness while in office. One of the basic areas of analysis is in fiscal responsibility, namely our debt.

And that is exactly what CNS News did, saying “The debt of the federal government has grown $16,955,289,814,977.42 during the 32 years that current Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada has served in the United States Congress. That equals an increase of about $145,131 for every household in the country. There have been five presidents during that time, including three Republicans (Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, and George W. Bush) and two Democrats (Bill Clinton and Barack Obama).”

“Reid was first elected to the House of Representatives in 1982 and then was elected to the Senate in 1986. He first took office in the House on Jan. 3, 1983, the first business day in January of that year. At the beginning of that day, according to the Monthly Statement of the Public Debt for December 1982, the total public debt of the federal government was $1.97 trillion. As of March 25 of this year, the latest day for which debt numbers are available, the federal debt was $18.152 trillion. That means that since Reid first joined Congress in 1983, the federal debt has increased just under $17 trillion.”

I am quite sure many are asking, so what? Here’s the so what for you and your household. CNS News says of the current $155,378 debt per household, 93 percent of it accrued during Harry Reid’s tenure in Congress.

Now, if that doesn’t bother you at all — and mind you, this should be a bipartisan analysis — then I don’t know what will. Because as you have incurred this massive debt per household, Senator Harry Reid — whose personal wealth has grown — will walk away with a taxpayer-funded pension of nearly 70 percent of his senatorial base pay, which, if I’m correct, is just over $200,000. In comparison for those who will challenge my military pension, I receive 55 percent of the base pay for being a retired Lieutenant Colonel with 22 years service.

So what are the consequences for Congressional fiscal responsibility? We all know that you qualify for a pension after having served only 5 years on Capitol Hill. And our Founding Fathers never wished for this to be a career pursuit; they wanteded servant legislators. As a matter of fact, it was George Mason who stated on 17 June, 1788 at the Virginia Ratifying Conference for our Constitution: “Nothing so strongly impels a man to regard the interest of his constituents, as the certainty of returning to the general mass of the people, from whence he was taken, where he must participate in their burdens.”

Therefore let us ask the question, what burdens do these retired Members of Congress share with the general mass of the people? What are the consequences for the irresponsible actions over a career of serving in Congress?

I can tell you simply that in the military if you’re given command of a unit and ruin that unit, chances are your evaluation report will ensure that you won’t be getting another unit. I know that so many address the “low approval ratings” of the Congress — but the incumbent reelection rate remains at or above 90 percent. So in other words, Congress — House and Senate — may stink but my representative smells like a rose. And so it becomes rather Pavlovian, and we continue to reward the abhorrent bad behavior, and unfortunately we get the government we deserve.

How about someone runs on moving Congress away from baseline budgeting, which means every year there is an increase in spending? And how about stop saying a cut to spending when all it means is a cut to the rate of increase of spending. The way it works now is, let’s say in Fiscal Year 2014, an agency had a stated budget. Subsequently in Fiscal Year 2015, they request a 15 percent increase in that budget. Congress comes back and only gives them a 12 percent increase — and that’s called a cut in spending. Instead we should move towards a zero-based budgetary system where every year the 12 appropriations bills start from ZERO, and every dollar must be justified, not taken for granted.

If we don’t get a hold of our spending problem in Washington D.C., If we don’t begin a critical analysis of individual Member records on fiscal matters –especially those in leadership and on specific fiscal committees — we are headed towards economic collapse.

I wish Senator Harry Reid happy trails ahead, but he hasn’t ensured we, the people will have them.

]]>http://allenbwest.com/2015/03/debt-per-household-has-increased-15-fold-during-harry-reid-tenure/feed/34Former Iraq ambassador has terrifying assessment of Middle Easthttp://allenbwest.com/2015/03/former-iraq-ambassador-has-terrifying-assessment-of-middle-east/
http://allenbwest.com/2015/03/former-iraq-ambassador-has-terrifying-assessment-of-middle-east/#commentsSat, 28 Mar 2015 13:25:09 +0000http://allenbwest.com/?p=7173There are times when I just have to ask, if this is success, what is failure? And so it goes with the current state of affairs in the Middle East — a far more volatile and incendiary region then it was even a couple years ago. White House spokesperson Josh Earnest says the strategy is working.

But now it’s not just those of us on the right who are questioning that assertion. As reported by Politico, “Barack Obama faces a slew of Middle East crises that some call the worst in a generation, as new chaos from Yemen to Iraq — along with deteriorating U.S.-Israeli relations — is confounding the president’s efforts to stabilize the region and strike a nuclear deal with Iran.”

“The meltdown has Obama officials defending their management of a region that some call impossible to control, even as critics say U.S. policies there are partly to blame for the spreading anarchy. “If there’s one lesson this administration has learned, from President Obama’s 2009 Cairo speech through the Arab Spring, it’s that when it comes to this region, nothing happens in a linear way — and precious little is actually about us, which is a hard reality to accept,” said a senior State Department official. Not everyone is so forgiving. “We’re in a goddamn free fall here,” said James Jeffrey, who served as Obama’s ambassador to Iraq and was a top national security aide in the George W. Bush White House.”

Just to reaffirm, I’m pleased to see more engagement by Middle East nations in their security environment — especially Saudi Arabia. However, I am concerned about our lack of credibility and regard which is diminishing relations with allies and has emboldened enemies. This is the result of believing national security is nothing more than a subset of campaign rhetoric — failing to recognize that your enemy has a vote.

If there’s one thing we lack in America, it’s a coherent foreign policy and national security strategy that’s not partisan and can be a part of a continuum, not a restart every four to eight years. This creates gaps by which our Republic can be exploited and so it is at this current stage. The next president will walk into a White House without much time for discovery learning. Heck, he or she may want to skip the pomp, and get right to the circumstance.

Case in point in this perplexing turn of events in the last two weeks, “For years, members of the Obama team have grappled with the chaotic aftermath of the Arab Spring. But of late they have been repeatedly caught off-guard, raising new questions about America’s ability to manage the dangerous region. Obama officials were surprised earlier this month, for instance, when the Iraqi government joined with Iranian-backed militias to mount a sudden offensive aimed at freeing the city of Tikrit from the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant.”

“Nor did they foresee the swift rise of the Iranian-backed rebels who toppled Yemen’s U.S.-friendly government and disrupted a crucial U.S. counterterrorism mission against al-Qaida there. Both situations took dramatic new turns this week. The U.S. announced its support for a Saudi-led coalition of 10 Sunni Arab nations that began bombing the Houthis, while Egypt threatened to send ground troops — a move that could initiate the worst intra-Arab war in decades.”

Now, this is just one region. We also have a growing security threat in the Maghreb of Africa over to the Horn. There is great cause for concern with Russia who recently threatened Denmark. And quietly we have lost sight of Chinese regional hegemonic designs. This is not about any imperialistic goals and objectives — it is about maintaining peace through strength in a Machiavellian era of despots, dictators, theocrats, and autocrats — not to mention non-state Islamists. All this at a time when we’re rolling back our military capacity and capability. We need a long-term vision for security, stability and peace.

How confused is the situation? “The U.S. is in the strange position of fighting ISIL alongside Iran at the same time it backs the Sunni campaign against Iran’s allies in Yemen — even as Secretary of State John Kerry hopes to seal a nuclear deal with Iran in Switzerland within days.” It reminds me of the Abbott and Costello “who’s on first” comedy skit — except this is no laughing matter.

This week we had two more ISIS wannabes in Illinois and we’re doing nothing to delegitimize this ideology. And in two months, those five senior Taliban leaders are free to depart Qatar — I don’t think they are going to Disneyland.

If there is one thing that should unite America, it should be the desire to survive and defeat this vile, savage, and barbaric enemy we face. The collusion of adversaries gathering today far exceeds that of the Axis powers of Germany, Italy, and Japan. I pray we will not require another catastrophic event to cause us to rally.

]]>http://allenbwest.com/2015/03/former-iraq-ambassador-has-terrifying-assessment-of-middle-east/feed/29What is unfolding in Iraq is beyond beliefhttp://allenbwest.com/2015/03/what-is-unfolding-in-iraq-is-beyond-belief/
http://allenbwest.com/2015/03/what-is-unfolding-in-iraq-is-beyond-belief/#commentsFri, 27 Mar 2015 18:12:55 +0000http://allenbwest.com/?p=7170In all my years of being a soldier and studying warfare, I don’t think I ever saw anything like that which is unfolding in Iraq. We have U.S. military advisors there — and remember we had a CENTCOM spokesperson addressing our goals to retake Mosul. Then lo and behold there was an offensive operation launched in Tikrit — but the U.S. had nothing to do with it. That operation was Iranian-led and over the past three weeks has completely stalled, just like the Iran-Iraq War.

So what happens next?

The New York Times reports, “American warplanes began airstrikes against Islamic State positions in Tikrit late Wednesday, finally joining a stalled offensive to retake the Iraqi city as American officials sought to seize the initiative from Iran, which had taken a major role in directing the operation. The decision to directly aid the offensive was made by President Obama on Wednesday, American officials said, and represented a significant shift in the Iraqi campaign.”

“For more than three weeks, the Americans had stayed on the sideline of the battle for Tikrit, wary of being in the position of aiding an essentially Iranian-led operation. Senior Iranian officials had been on the scene, and allied Shiite militias had made up the bulk of the force. Mr. Obama approved the airstrikes after a request from Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi on the condition that Iranian-backed Shiite militias move aside to allow a larger role for Iraqi government counterterrorism forces that have worked most closely with United States troops, American officials said. Qassim Suleimani, the commander of the Quds Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps who has been advising forces around Tikrit, was reported on Sunday to have left the area.”

And so it seems we’re in another phase of rent-an-air-combat-capability, courtesy of our commander-in-chief, Barack Hussein Obama. This is a repeat of what we saw in Libya when we supported Islamists to overthrow that government and now we have an ISIS/al-Qaida in the Maghreb/Ansar al-Sharia sanctuary.

Having been an artillery officer and a fire support coordinator in combat, my question is simple, who are our pilots talking to on the ground in Tikrit? There’s a person referred to as a G-FAC (Ground Forward Air Controller) who ensures that the munitions are directed on target. Now, President Obama has stated there will be no “boots on the ground,” so are these airstrikes in Tikrit effective — or just bombing for show?

And who has verified no Iranian forces or Shiite militias remain on the ground in the vicinity of Tikrit benefitting from our resources — as in Libya?

We have been “bombing” ISIS since last August and one would tend to believe these guys are being pummeled into submission and decimated. That seems not to be the case. As a matter of fact, what is going on in and around Kobani? I know, most folks don’t remember where that is, and the news cycle just quit reporting on that battle space.

How many airstrikes have been launched since last August and munitions dropped? If we were effective in these munitions deliveries, ISIS would be a thing of foregone lore. Unfortunately that also is not the case, since we just apprehended another two cousins in Illinois seeking to join with ISIS.

When the White House spokesperson Josh Earnest is queried on this, or the faltering situation in Yemen, he continues to chime on that everything is working as intended and the strategy is working — firstly, what strategy?

I do not fault our brave combat pilots who are flying and doing as ordered. But we do not have a coherent strategy in the Middle East — ask the Saudis, who I’m glad to see have finally gotten off their duff and taking some action. But the real concern is the outsourcing of our air power towards some indiscriminate and undefined operation that is not yielding any effective results — no change in operations of the enemy.

What is building up now will have to be dealt with later — and it will require a greater Herculean effort. Funny, I remember my Article 32 hearing being conducted in Tikrit at the 4th Infantry Division headquarters– now we’re bombing it all over again.

We jail warriors and celebrate deserters — this is truly the definition of insanity.